John is Director of IRCs Global Programme and a member of the senior management team. IRC's Global Programme generates and uses evidence - working through partnerships - to drive change at scale in the systems that ultimately deliver water, sanitation and hygiene services at country and local levels.
John is a Briton and European, working from Lodz in Poland where he lives with his family. He has worked for IRC since 2005 and between 2016 and 2019 he was the country director in Ethiopia. He currently represents IRC in the Sanitation and Water for All led Heads of State Initiatives, the executive committee of the Agenda for Change, the Influence team for the One For Alliance, UN-water and the board of the Millennium Water Alliance.
This workshop was organized to learn about and discuss participatory approaches to research in agriculture and nutrition. The objectives of the... Read more...
The failure to treat water as a scarce resource is, according to the author, one of the main causes of today's international water crisis. Demand... Read more...
This manual aims to bring together -in one document- descriptions and ordering information about all the currently available manuals and guides on... Read more...
This book is based on direct field experience in community water supply programmes in Africa. It stresses the partnership between community and... Read more...
Video is an attempt to break the cultural taboes around the issue of human excreta disposal. Midas Dekker, a Dutch writer on animal behaviour,... Read more...
This report represents an attempt to bring together information on rapid (and inexpensive) methods of collecting and analyzing data on health... Read more...
The evaluation set out to: a. identify drought crisis points through reconnaissance and meetings with local community leaders, churches, NGO's, and... Read more...
The Global Assembly of Women and the Environment "Partners in Life" had as goal to demonstrate women's capacities in environmental... Read more...
As a follow-up to the publication "Community water supply: the handpump option", this report describes the results of handpump research and... Read more...
This working paper examines household environmental problems in the Accra Metropolitan Area (AMA) of Ghana. Accra is the major industrial growth... Read more...
The management of land and water resources on a catchment or basin level and the consideration of water as an economic good are the two main... Read more...